Python Memory Deep Dive: Primitives vs. Objects Performance in 2025
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In the landscape of 2025, Python remains the dominant language for data engineering, AI orchestration, and backend web services. With the maturation of the No-GIL CPython (introduced experimentally in 3.13 and stabilized in subsequent versions), threading performance has skyrocketed. However, one fundamental constraint remains: Memory.